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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

[2293] Matt. x. 37, 38.

[2294] Matt. v. 10-12.

[2295] Matt. x. 18; xxi. 22.

[2296] Rev. iii. 21.

[2297] Rom. viii. 35.

[2298] [Note the power of Holy Scripture in creating and supporting the martyr-spirit.]

[2299] [See valuable note, Oxford translation, p. 71.]

[2300] Lit. “of our postponement.”

[2301] [I have amended the translation here from the Oxford trans.]

[2302] [An important testimony to Cyprian’s judicious retirement, in the spirit of St. Paul, Phil. i. 24.]

[2303] “Sanctum.” [Note what follows: a rule for our times.]

[2304] [An important testimony to the Cyprianic theory from members of the Roman presbytery.]

[2305] [The extent of the lapses which Cyprian strove to check by due austerity must be noted.]

[2306] [The casting of a grain of incense upon the coals before an image, to escape death.]

[2307] [Meats offered to idols.]

[2308] [Note the profound convictions in these very lapsers of the truth of the Gospel and of the value of full communion with Christ.]

Epistle XXVI. Cyprian to the Lapsed.

[2309] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxiii. a.d. 250.

[2310] [This is the Cyprianic idea. The idea that this was peculiar to any one bishop had never entered his mind. See vol. iv. p. 99.]

[2311] Matt. xvi. 18, 19.

[2312] [Elucidated and worked out in the Treatise on Unity, infra.]

[2313] Matt. xxii. 32.

 

 

 

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